On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote: > >> On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu < >> randrianas...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Monday, April 26, 2021, BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >>>> >>>>> Over the weekend I got a Red Hat 6.x (not RHEL!) for Alpha booting >>>>> under QEMU which was pretty neat. But I failed to find a succesful >>>>> combination to get X working; has anyone any suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Adding Andrew who has experimented with old X framebuffer so he may >>>> remember something more but that was on x86. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sorry, I still away from my desktop (with notes/logs), not sure when >>> return.. >>> I do not think I tried something that old.. Kernel 2.2 i guess, before >>> any >>> attempt at r128 drm Kernel module was written (in 2.4?) and so before ddx >>> attempted to use that (as it tries by default in much newer distros) >>> >> > Maybe it would work better with newer RedHat than 6.0? I think I've seen > images up to at least 7.1 that supported alpha but I don't know how to boot > them. I could get kernel and installer running with -kernel -initrd but did > not find the CD on the defailt CMD646 controller (seems to only have driver > for one SCSI controller) so I'm not sure how to try this. Trying to just > boot from the CD without -kernel -initrd it just stops after displaying > "Hello" in top left but that could be something about alpha firmware I > don't know how to use. I think alpha firmware is incomplete, not like real Alpha firmware.. I found you can try to install rh 7.1 on alpha from Hard drive or network (ftp/http) https://web.archive.org/web/20011120235248/http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/alpha-install-guide/s1-guimode-sel-method.html But this requires network boot disk... Not sure from where you can get it... > > Regards, > BALATON Zoltan >
